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While trying to save her brother from a witch’s fire four years ago, Greta was thrown in herself, falling through a portal to Mylena, a dangerous world where humans are the enemy and every ogre, ghoul, and goblin has a dark side that comes out with the eclipse.

To survive, Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young goblin king, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her will to escape.

But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. An ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the portal, and with the next eclipse mere days away, every bloodthirsty creature in the realm is after her—including Isaac. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back...

I had a lot of fun reading Greta and the Goblin King! Admittedly, as I’ve said before, fantasy is my weakness, especially when it involves faeries and goblins and the like. That being said, I haven’t read many books about goblins, especially handsome ones, so this was a new little adventure for me!

Greta kicks things off with a bounty hunting job, going off to find a young goblin boy who’d been kidnapped by a ghoul. She’s joined by Isaac, the newly crowned goblin king – and the one guy she doesn’t want hanging around. It turns out, Isaac is able to infiltrate her dreams, and he’s getting a bit too close to her secret – that she’s human and the one species that everyone on this world she was shoved into four years prior hates with a passion. After helping her home following the rescue mission, she discovers that the only safe place she knew in the world wasn’t all that safe, but not wanting to trust Isaac, she decides to head off on her own to find the biggest baddie in bad town.

SIGH. Stubborn girl.

One thing I really loved about this world is the concept of natural and raw states. All of the magical species in the world have two states, influenced by the moon (and strong emotions). When the world experiences an eclipse of the two moons and suns (yes, two of each!), all hell breaks loose, with everyone turning into their more monstrous forms. AKA pretty certain death for humans. This added some extra time pressure and anxiety to the book, especially towards the end.

The characters varied in depth, but I did like the lost boys, especially little Jacob. There were times when I could relate to Greta, but other times, I just wanted to shake her. She was so untrusting.

The relationship with Isaac was a given from the very beginning. Hell, you could just read the blurb to see it was coming. I’ll admit, I did find it quite intoxicating at times, with a lot of banter and rather heart-stopping dream scenes. Plus, while Isaac wasn’t really a ‘bad boy’, he had the whole scary raw-state goblin thing to give him an element of danger. I just wish I could imagine him a bit better; we got a lot of clues to his physical appearance, but there was just something missing.

Oh, and there’s a love triangle thing. In case that’s something you want to know.

Overall, I would look out for more reviews of the rest of the series soon, as I’m going after them!!!

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